Towards Competitive N-gram Smoothing

Moein Falahatgar, Mesrob I. Ohannessian, Alon Orlitsky, Venkatadheeraj Pichapati

Abstract: N-gram models remain a fundamental component of language modeling. In data-scarce regimes, they are a strong alternative to neural models. Even when not used as-is, recent work shows they can regul...